Command of the Day

An old, long-neglected friend: fortune One of the first Unix commands I learned, back in the days when cavemen roamed the earth. You basically type fortune, and you’ll be rewarded with a funny|informational|inspirational message on standard output.

I was leaving a comment at Dave’s place, and had occasion to refer to this command. It made me wonder, “Is fortune still around?”, A quick check of my Fedora 10 powered laptop, revealed:

bash: fortune: command not found

Bummer! I checked the Fedora repo for packages with the string “fortune”, did a yum install fortune-mod, and behold it’s alive.

On running it for the purposes of this post, here’s what I got:

[knelson@vagabond ~]$ fortune
Q: What do you call the scratches that you get when a female
sheep bites you?
A: Ewe nicks.
[knelson@vagabond ~]$

Is this the bee’s knees, or what?

-k-

This entry was written by ken, posted on November 28, 2008 at 2:44 pm and tagged , . Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Post a comment or leave a trackback: Trackback URL.

2 Comments

  1. PJ Cabrera
    Posted November 28, 2008 at 7:46 pm | Permalink

    I used to amuse myself silly with

    fortune | pinhead

    back in the day

    :-)

  2. PJ Cabrera
    Posted November 28, 2008 at 7:47 pm | Permalink

    My bad, I thought one thing and typed another.

    I meant

    pinhead | eliza

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